Scambaiting

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You know those crappy e-mails you get from Nigeria.. like this:

 

From:Mr. M.Hasam

Alternative email:musahasan123@netscape.net

Lagos-Nigeria.

Attn:President/Ceo.

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).

 

 

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you by e-mail due to the urgency of this transaction.

 

I am a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring Committee in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporatio(NNPC). Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in NNPC by my Committee. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M. U.S. Dollars. This was done deliberately. The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.

 

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For assisting us in this deal, you will be entitled to 30% of the money,60% will be for me and my partners

while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that maybe incurred by us during

the course of this transfer, both locally and international expenses.

 

I would require-

 

1. Your Company's Name,Address,Tel.& Fax. Numbers.

2. Your Bank Account Number and Address where the money will be remitted.

 

The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release

of the money. It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of this nature described here. The assumption is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to

other companies. More often than not, big trading companies or firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts.

 

We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Apex Bank(Central Bank of Nigeria), as well as the

Federal Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that all the money will be released and transferred if we

get the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal. Therefore,when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned Government Ministries for 100% security. We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to get rich.

 

We want this money to be transferred to your nominated bank for us, before the present Democratic Government start Auditing all Federal Government owned Parastatals. Please contact me immediately through my alternative email above whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not,it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal. But where you are interested, send the required documents aforementioned herein through my above my alternative email, as time is of the essence in this business.

 

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Mr. M.Hasam

 

Well, I found a website called 419eater which was set up by a british bloke to play the scammers at their own game, stringing them along and taking the piss out of them. Check out the website, there's some really good stuff on there. The Letters Archive has some great stuff on it, even if they do take a while to read, stick with it. There's a cracking one I read ages ago about a a bloke pretending to be an old sea dog and sailing his ship towards Ghana to meet the scammer.

 

Check it out:

Scambaiting

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This is the one I really like:

 

Captain Stabbin

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To be honest it's difficult to feel sorry for people stupid/greedy enough to fall for this sort of thing.

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To be honest it's difficult to feel sorry for people stupid/greedy enough to fall for this sort of thing.

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Totally agree with that sentiment.

 

This thread has reminded me that my brother fell for some small money one a few years back. It involved sending 50/100 quid to some correspondence course that would train you to make big money working on oil rigs. He came to me saying he thought he'd been scammed and could I check if the company was legit. He couldn't figure out how I could tell him the company was not legit without checking...